{"id":77332,"date":"2026-02-23T20:05:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/?page_id=77332"},"modified":"2026-10-01T21:14:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T19:14:44","slug":"aliona-kardash","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/aliona-kardash\/","title":{"rendered":"Aliona Kardash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n\n
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Teaching areas:<\/strong> Int. Class \u2013 Photo Project<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aliona Kardash (born 1990) is a documentary photographer from Siberia who lives in Hamburg. She is a member of the DOCKS collective and is represented by the agency laif.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aliona studied journalism at Tomsk State University in Russia, graduating with a bachelor\u2019s degree. In 2017 she studied photography in the International Class at Hochschule Hannover. Since 2019 she has been a master\u2019s student at Fachhochschule Dortmund. In 2022 she received the stern scholarship and worked for a year as a photojournalist for stern magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her photographic work she often draws on her own biography, searching personal stories for universal patterns. She explores cultural and national identity, people\u2019s connection to their past and shared roots.<\/p>\n\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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